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CVE-2009-0601
Format string vulnerability in Wireshark 0.99.8 through 1.0.5 on non-Windows platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service…
Low2.1EPSS 0.37%
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- Updated
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- mitre
Description
Format string vulnerability in Wireshark 0.99.8 through 1.0.5 on non-Windows platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the HOME environment variable.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Low2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 0.37% · top 69% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Low 2.1.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- 20090312 rPSA-2009-0040-1 tshark wireshark (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3150 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 33690 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2009:005 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- 1021697 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2984 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2009-0040 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2009-0370 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- http://www.wireshark.org/security/wnpa-sec-2009-01.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 34264 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
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- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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